Self Torture Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried… — Dale Carnegie
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian… — Grantland Rice
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in… — Marya Hornbacher
Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that… — Gangaji
When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our… — Matt Smith
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was… — Oscar Wilde
A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. — John Steinbeck
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. — Ian Mcewan
Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture. — Edgar Allan Poe
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty… — Erica Jong
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around… — Helen Garner
People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their… — Desiderius Erasmus

Who Wrote These Self Torture Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Self Torture Quotes as follows: